fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
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The phrase "we blow great motorcycle" may have been written by the author of most instruction manuals that accompanied Japanese-built audio equipment that I purchased back in the '70s & '80s.
Could be but....
I grew up around working professional musicians and "blow" was commonly used as a synonym for "play", especially with wind instruments. As with most slang there were other nuanced uses generally related to music performance. So I read "we blow great motorcycle" as meaning "We make great instruments. We also make great motorcycles?" "Test-blow one" suggests the ad copy is deliberate and rooted in slang rather than some kind of bad translation, poorly edited.
Nevertheless in a world where "blow" has slang meanings in sex and drugs (but not AFAIK rock and roll) it is not ad copy that one would expect half a century later.